by attending veterinarians and animal care
technicians. All animals are monitored
daily, year-round. And while testing on ani-
mals is vital to advances in medical care
for human patients, AccelLAB still strives
to replace animals with non-animal mod-
els in their research, Leclerc said, hoping
to reduce the number of animals used in
their studies.
“There’s a limit to what can be done on a
bench test without a live system,” he ex-
plained, “and that’s why we do need to
test these new implants that do save lives,
that do improve the quality of life of hu-
mans. We do need to test these devices
in live systems such as animals.”
One advance that AccelLAB has been test-
ing is a cardiac stent that is designed to
be absorbable by the body. Current stents
are made of metal and stay within a ves-
sel or artery permanently unless removed.
Medicine is starting to shift away from
“We’re being audited by agencies like CCAC and also the American AAALAC.
Through these audits we’re constantly improving our methods and sharing that
with other users with similar methodology. There’s a constant improvement in
this field of research.”
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